Peters



(No Model.)

J. & N. FORSHAW.

GASOLINE STOVE ATTACHMENT. No. 311,182. Patented Jan. 27, 1885.

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Z ATENT GASOLINE-STOVE ATTACHMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 311,182, dated January27, 1885.

Application filed February 13, 1884. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that we, J OSEPH FoRsHAw'and NATHAN FORSHAW, both of thecity of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented a certain newand useful Improvement in Gasoline-Stove Attachments, of which thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description,

reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming'part of thisSpecification, andin which Figurel is a transverse section of the top ofa gasoline-stove, showing the burners, or one of them, in side view, andthe device embodying our invention in edge view. Fig. 2 is a front viewof the device embodying our invention, showing part of the top of thestove in longitudinal section. Fig. 3 is a vertical section taken online 3 3, Fig. 1; and Fig. 4. is a similar view to Fig. 2, except thatthe dial-disk is adjusted to a different position,and the valve is shownclosed instead of partly open. Fig. 5 is a detail view showing the slotthat receives the'bolt that connects our attachment to the stove-top.Fig. 6 represents a modification.

Our invention relates to a device to be attached to all kinds ofgasoline-stoves; and it consists in features of novelty hereinafterfully described, and pointed out in the claims.

Referring to the drawings, A represents the top, and B one of theburners, of an ordinary gasoline-stove.

0 represents the stem of the valve, which is bent at D to form a crankor handle, H. The extreme end may be bent to form a loop or eye, I, togive a better hand-hold.

A great deal of difficulty has been experienced in gasolinest-oves bythe cranks or levers getting loose upon the valve-stems, but when theyare thus formed in one piece this difficulty is entirely avoided, and,besides, a very cheap, strong, and durable article is produced.

J represents a bracket secured to the front edge of the top of the stoveby means of a bolt, L, fitting in a hole in the top, and a slot (seeFig. 5) in the bracket. It can thus, with a very little trouble, beattached to any stove, and there may be as many to a stove as there areburners. In the lower part of the bracket is a slot,'M, to admit thehandle of the valvestem, and in the lower part of which the stem fits.The bracket has a shoulder, N, against which the handle of thevalve-stem strikes when the burner is fully opened. (See dotted lines,Fig. 3.)

0 represents a dial disk secured to the bracket by a stud, P, enteringthe slot M, and having a nut on its inner end. The handle of thevalve-stem fits between the bracket and disk, as shown in Fig. l, andits lower end or loop, I, extends slightly beyond the disk, so that itcan be conveniently grasped to turn the burner on and off.

Q is a stop-pin on the disk, against which the handle strikes when thevalve is closed.

* To compensate for-wear on the valve, the disk is made adjustable, sothat the stop-pin can be moved farther around, allowing the valve-stemto be turned farther in closing the valve. The disk is made adjustableby a screw, T, passing through it and entering holes U in the bracket.Thus when the stove is new, or when the valve or burners are new, thedisk would be in the position shown in Fig. 2, and the valve would beclosed when its handle comes against the stoppin. Then, when the stovehad been used for a month, (more or less,) the disk would be moved intothe position shown in Fig. 4., thereby raising the stoppin, allowing thevalve stem tobe turned farther, andin this way the valve can always havea stop, and at the same time always be kept tight against its seat. Whenthe valve becomes still more worn, the disk would be adjusted again bymoving the screw T to another hole U. The stud P acts as a pivot uponwhich the disk turns. The words open and closed are marked or cast uponthe disk, to show which way to turn the valve.

As a modification of our preferred form, the bracket J may haveperforations J ,to receive stop-pins J as shown in Fig, 6, and then thedial-disk would. be left off, the pins filling its office as itsmechanical equivalent.

We claim as our invention- 1. I11 a vapor-stove, the combination of aburner, a valve, a valve-stem having a crankhandle, a bracket in frontof which the handle rotates, and. end stops to indicate the open andclosed condition of the valve, and adjustable to compensate for the wearof the valve, as set forth.

2. In combination with the burner and valvestem of a gasoline-stove, anadjustable diall a screw to enter any one of the perforations of 10 diskprovided with a stop, substantially as and the bracket, and having astop-pin to receive for the purpose set forth. the lever of thevalve-stem when the valve is 3. In a gasoline-stove, the combination ofclosed, as set forth.

the burner, valve-stem With lever, removable JOSEPH FORSHAWV.

bracket provided with a slot to receive the le- NATHAN FORSHAVV.

ver of the valve-stein, and perforations to re- In presence of ceive theinner end of ascrew, and a disk hav- GEO. H. KNIGHT,

ing a stud entering the slot of the bracket, and l BENJN. A. KNIGHT.

